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I haven't started a thread here in years, so I hope this is in the right place. I did a search and nothing came up.
This has been on our local news and now the national news is starting to pick it up. A local doctor has been accused of poisoning his wife, who has had surgery and a long illness. The wife is a pharmacist, so I think she knows what she's talking about.
It's like a future Lifetime movie of the week.
(It's also a little uncanny for those who followed the Gail Palmgren case - Gail was also a pharmacist, and this is the mountain directly across the river from Signal. Now the husband has hired the same law firm that represented Matt Palmgren, Davis and Hoss.)
Here's a video from Nancy Grace:
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2012/08/08/exp-ng-doctor-poisoning.hln
WRCB TV: Wife's Attorney Speaks Out
Liesa Hill's attorney, Chrissy Mincy, says Hill lived in fear for nearly five months at her Lookout Mountain home, as investigators discreetly ran lab tests on a substance Hill claims her husband, Dr. Hal Hill, put in her coffee.
"She had a lot of stomach problems; she was very lethargic," Mincy says. "When she stopped drinking the coffee, she got better."
Test results show there was a high amount of barium in her coffee.
"When we got the lab results back the police informed her that the symptoms she'd been experiencing were consistent with heavy metal poisoning," Mincy says.
Chatt. Times-Free Press: Doctor Denies Wife's Allegations of Poisoning
The firm Davis & Hoss is representing Hal Hill, attorney Lee Davis said. He cautioned against drawing conclusions before the investigation into Liesa Hill's allegations is complete.
"We strongly deny any allegations of wrong-doing or misconduct toward his wife," he said. "I expect there will be a full investigation, and I hope that nobody will rush to any conclusions."
. . . Barium is a heavy metal that comes in many forms, said Dr. John Benitez, director of the Tennessee Poison Center. Not all forms are toxic.
. . . Barium sulfate is used for medical imaging procedures like X-rays, Benitez said. "It's how we do X-rays of the gastrointestinal system," he said. "People swallow this, and that is how we can tell what the gastro-intestinal system lining looks like. It's not poisonous in that case because the body doesn't absorb it."
The types of barium that are poisonous are soluble, so they can be absorbed by the body, Benitez said. He said that ingesting soluble barium would cause symptoms like muscle cramping and eventually could lead to death.
~ more at link ~
More Video and Stuff about Barium: Here on Channel 9
This has been on our local news and now the national news is starting to pick it up. A local doctor has been accused of poisoning his wife, who has had surgery and a long illness. The wife is a pharmacist, so I think she knows what she's talking about.
It's like a future Lifetime movie of the week.
(It's also a little uncanny for those who followed the Gail Palmgren case - Gail was also a pharmacist, and this is the mountain directly across the river from Signal. Now the husband has hired the same law firm that represented Matt Palmgren, Davis and Hoss.)
Here's a video from Nancy Grace:
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2012/08/08/exp-ng-doctor-poisoning.hln
WRCB TV: Wife's Attorney Speaks Out
Liesa Hill's attorney, Chrissy Mincy, says Hill lived in fear for nearly five months at her Lookout Mountain home, as investigators discreetly ran lab tests on a substance Hill claims her husband, Dr. Hal Hill, put in her coffee.
"She had a lot of stomach problems; she was very lethargic," Mincy says. "When she stopped drinking the coffee, she got better."
Test results show there was a high amount of barium in her coffee.
"When we got the lab results back the police informed her that the symptoms she'd been experiencing were consistent with heavy metal poisoning," Mincy says.
Chatt. Times-Free Press: Doctor Denies Wife's Allegations of Poisoning
The firm Davis & Hoss is representing Hal Hill, attorney Lee Davis said. He cautioned against drawing conclusions before the investigation into Liesa Hill's allegations is complete.
"We strongly deny any allegations of wrong-doing or misconduct toward his wife," he said. "I expect there will be a full investigation, and I hope that nobody will rush to any conclusions."
. . . Barium is a heavy metal that comes in many forms, said Dr. John Benitez, director of the Tennessee Poison Center. Not all forms are toxic.
. . . Barium sulfate is used for medical imaging procedures like X-rays, Benitez said. "It's how we do X-rays of the gastrointestinal system," he said. "People swallow this, and that is how we can tell what the gastro-intestinal system lining looks like. It's not poisonous in that case because the body doesn't absorb it."
The types of barium that are poisonous are soluble, so they can be absorbed by the body, Benitez said. He said that ingesting soluble barium would cause symptoms like muscle cramping and eventually could lead to death.
~ more at link ~
More Video and Stuff about Barium: Here on Channel 9